Bill Text: TX SB748 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to maternal and newborn health care, including the newborn screening preservation account.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB748 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB748-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to maternal and newborn health care, including the newborn screening preservation account.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB748 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB748-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 748 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2019; March 1, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human | ||
Services; March 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to newborn screening and the newborn screening | ||
preservation account. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.004(f), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(f) The executive commissioner by rule shall [ |
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establish the amounts charged for newborn screening fees, including | ||
fees assessed for follow-up services, tracking confirmatory | ||
testing, and diagnosis. In adopting rules under this subsection, | ||
the executive commissioner shall ensure that amounts charged for | ||
newborn screening fees are sufficient to cover the costs of | ||
performing the screening. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 33, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER D. NEWBORN SCREENING PRESERVATION ACCOUNT | ||
Sec. 33.051. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "account" | ||
means the newborn screening preservation account established under | ||
Section 33.052. | ||
Sec. 33.052. CREATION OF ACCOUNT. (a) The newborn | ||
screening preservation account is a dedicated account in the | ||
general revenue fund. Money in the account may be appropriated only | ||
to the department and only for the purpose of carrying out the | ||
newborn screening program established under this chapter. | ||
(b) On November 1 of each year, the comptroller shall | ||
transfer to the account any unexpended and unencumbered money from | ||
Medicaid reimbursements collected by the department for newborn | ||
screening services during the preceding state fiscal year. | ||
(c) The account is composed of: | ||
(1) money transferred to the account under Subsection | ||
(b); | ||
(2) gifts, grants, donations, and legislative | ||
appropriations; and | ||
(3) interest earned on the investment of money in the | ||
account. | ||
(d) Section 403.0956, Government Code, does not apply to the | ||
account. | ||
(e) The department administers the account. The department | ||
may solicit and receive gifts, grants, and donations from any | ||
source for the benefit of the account. | ||
Sec. 33.053. DEDICATED USE. (a) The department may use | ||
any money remaining in the account after paying the costs of | ||
operating the newborn screening program established under this | ||
chapter only to: | ||
(1) pay the costs of offering additional newborn | ||
screening tests not offered under this chapter before September 1, | ||
2019, including the operational costs incurred during the first | ||
year of implementing the additional tests; and | ||
(2) pay for capital assets, equipment, and renovations | ||
for the laboratory established by the department to ensure the | ||
continuous operation of the newborn screening program. | ||
(b) The department may not use money from the account for | ||
the department's general operating expenses. | ||
Sec. 33.054. REPORT. If the department requires an | ||
additional newborn screening test under Subchapter B the costs of | ||
which are funded with money appropriated from the newborn screening | ||
preservation account, the department shall, not later than December | ||
31 of the first even-numbered year following the addition of the | ||
test, prepare and submit a written report regarding the actions | ||
taken by the department to fund and implement the test during the | ||
preceding two years to: | ||
(1) the governor; | ||
(2) the lieutenant governor; | ||
(3) the speaker of the house of representatives; and | ||
(4) each standing committee of the legislature having | ||
primary jurisdiction over the department. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the | ||
changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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